Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 5)

[Kaylee]

Thanks!

[Kristin]

Hi, I recently added a quote on Goodreads with a small typo. I wonder could someone please fix it for me?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9638...

There should be no comma in the following line after Pittsburgh. If you could change it to a period that would be great.

"Even the staunchest of private detectives found not a trace of you after you left the bank in Pittsburgh, It was as if you never existed."

[Arenda]

#717 done

[Kristin]

Thanks!

[[deleted user]]

Hello - I did post a request for quote removal as a separate item, but it looks like this is the proper place to make such a request.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

= =
I note that there are a couple of quotes attributed to Michael Gorbachev that do not have sources for them, and appear to have been added to Goodreads for political purposes.

They are:
"The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe."
and
"The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes."

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...

The theme of these supposed quotes run contrary to actual sourced quotes on the European Union (such as the article in the Irish Times referring to a Gorbachev speech in 2002 - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/gorba... - and a speech given to the European Council in 1989.

FYI, the veracity of the first quote above has already been questioned in Wikiquote and has not been countered - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Mi... )

I propose the quotes should be removed.
= =

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Martin wrote: "Hello - I did post a request for quote removal as a separate item"

Either here or as a separate thread is fine, but not both. It's confusing when the same request is posted more than once.

[[deleted user]]

I just added a quote and misspelled two words:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9648391-all-worlds-are-whores-forever-betraying-you-and-slipping-away

it should be: "All words are whores, forever betraying you and slipping away into the darkness while your soul yearns for them."

[Emily]

#722 Your link doesn't work, can you repost?

[Catherine]

If anyone has a minute to delete a quote I added yesterday, I would be so grateful!

The potato should have been left to cook on the fire! Not the farm. The perils of transcribing from an audiobook and trying to type too quickly. Let alone the lack of grammar.

Will try adding it again when I have the book in front of me.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9653...

Thank you so much.

[Abcdarian]

#724: 0 likes; deleted.

[Suh]

Can you delete following quotes under these links?
I uploaded them for the test, and it contains the word 'test' or the name of the people.

Please delete three quotes under this link:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear...

Also, please delete three quotes under this link too:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear...

[Philip]

#726 - Got the 2 under each that was listed as test. You want the other one under each link removed also?

[Suh]

Philip wrote: "#726 - Got the 2 under each that was listed as test. You want the other one under each link removed also?"

Thank you. Please remove this as well because the name is in lower case.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear...

[Suh]

Question: How can I remove #728 from my Update Feed? I did not uncheck it.

[Emily]

I fixed your name in #728 and added the book to it. Did you want to delete it altogether, or just fix it? Did you want the book on it?

[Suh]

Suh wrote: "Question: How can I remove #728 from my Update Feed? I did not uncheck it."

Yes please delete it. Thanks!

[Emily]

#731 It is in the queue for deletion.

[Janelle]

Could this David Bowie quote be deleted? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1180...

It's fake. It's from a satirical news website and he never actually said it.
http://fmobserver.com/fmos-final-inte...

[Amit]

Hi,

Please delete this quote:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9597...

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Amit wrote: "Hi,

Please delete this quote:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9597..."

No likes, so I deleted.

[Jessica]

Hello,

Please edit "excess" to "exist" and "with lights" to "without lights"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9662356

Thank you!

[Luna]

Hiya! I made a spelling error in a quote I just made. Please delete or change "Warn" to "Warner". It looks so dumb now I wish I could change it myself lol

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9663...

[Afreen]

Amy wrote: "Hiya! I made a spelling error in a quote I just made. Please delete or change "Warn" to "Warner". It looks so dumb now I wish I could change it myself lol

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9663714-..."

Done

[Afreen]

Jessica wrote: "Hello,

Please edit "excess" to "exist" and "with lights" to "without lights"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9662356

Thank you!"

Done

[Luna]

Afreen wrote: "Amy wrote: "Hiya! I made a spelling error in a quote I just made. Please delete or change "Warn" to "Warner". It looks so dumb now I wish I could change it myself lol

https://www.goodreads.com/quo..."

Thank you so much :)

[Stephanie]

Hello, could this be deleted? I misattributed it and don't need it

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9664...

[Melody]

Stephanie wrote: "Hello, could this be deleted? I misattributed it and don't need it

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9664..."

Done

[Melody]

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

[Melody]

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

[Murray]

Hello, can someone delete this quote, because I would like to write it anew?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9537...

[Emily]

#742 done

[Emily]

Melody wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..."
You inadvertently posted in the wrong thread

[Tura]

Hi hi!

The other day I sent an email to Goodreads regarding a quote for the book "No està escrit a les estrelles" by John Green (the Catalan version of "The Fault in Our Stars"). They fixed it for me (thank you!) but now that I wanted to add a new quote, I saw that the book is no longer available on the list of possible John Green books to quote. Is there any possibility for it to appear again, so I can add new quotes?

Thank you!

PS. The book that I want to quote is the following: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Renske]

Quotes are linked to the whole work, not to one specific edition.

[Michael]

Could a super please add the work Paris Spleen to the following quote:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3672...

Thanks :-)

[Courtney]

Hello, could someone please fix my typo in the first line of the quote found here?

"I might have said you'll pay for this wild & reckless hour" should read "I might have said you'll pay for the wild & reckless hour".

Thank you!

[Emily]

#746-747 Done

[M.F.]

First, apologies to those who abhor bad language...
I have a quote in which the source needs to be added:

“I must say that being called ma’am is a whole lot better than being called an old bitch and a crusty old cunt.”
― M.F. Hopkins
After M. F. Hopkins, A Good and Fair Trade should follow.

Thank you!

[Emily]

#749 I attached the book to it :)

[Rebecca]

Hi, would you mind deleting this quote for me? I'd rather the quotes from my characters show up and not one from me :) Thank you!

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...

[Melody]

deleted

[Rebecca]

Thank you!

[Kelvin]

Hi, the quote that I added has link to the WRONG author page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Please link it to my author page as follow:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Thanks very much!

[Emily]

#754 I moved both quotes to your page. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...

[Nils]

Can you merge quotes? The seventh most-liked quote on Lolita is quite wrong: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1882.... The correct quote is here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1367.... As indicated here: https://books.google.com/books?id=Jty.... The former quote has 863 likes, and it seems sad to just nuke it, but if they can't be merged maybe it has to be done. Or just replace the entire quote in place, and have duplicates?

[Emily]

#756 I've merged the quotes and edited it. The rest of the likes will transfer over in time.
The system doesn't allow for identical quotes.

[Nils]

Thank you, Emily!

[Anita]

Please delete! Had some spelling errors, thanks! https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9719...

[Pixie]

Please delete the top one, it's an incorrect duplicate...sorry!

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...

[Emily]

#759-760 done, it will take a while to disappear